Recruiting for senior positions in the ports industry, April 2021

This paper has been commissioned by the British Ports Association and examines the various options available for ports recruiting senior executives. Phil Hagen is an experienced senior executive recruitment and business strategist having spent over 25years as a senior director-level executive, working in the telecoms, IT and ICT sectors. This included 11 years as a board director of a global telecoms organisation and later, as CEO of a US software development company, based in Oklahoma. A qualified behavioural science practitioner and developer, he created the unique Sales Match psychometric behavioural assessment tool to help companies identify and recruit the right people for the job. The last eight years has seen him as a Non-Executive Director for a London based international executive recruitment company, where he advises many of their key accounts on board level succession planning and recruitment.